( 422 ) 



12 mm. on the hindwing and includes a yellowish zigzag line, all fawn-colonr, 

 being slightly vinaceons. 



Length of forewing : •>- mm. 

 „ „ hindwing : 32 mm. 



Hub. Paramba, Western Ecuador, June 1899. 



1 ?. 



20. Citherouia consobrina Bpec. nov. 



<?. In colour close to C.mexicana aroa Schaus (1902). Hindwing distinctly 

 produced at anal angle, with a discal baud which terminates at anal angle in 

 a fuscous patch. Light markings of underside sulphur-yellow ; hindwing washed 

 with ferruginous and yellow below cell. Hair-scales of clasper, except at apex, 

 short ; apex of clasper produced into a slender process ; harpe much longer than 

 in C. mexicana aroa ; penis-sheath blade-like, being long, narrow, pointed. 



Hub. La Union, Rio Hnacamayo, South-East Pern, 2000 ft. (G. R. Ockenden). 



5 c?cJ. 



27. Citheronia armata spec. nov. 



S ? . Foretibia of both sexes produced into a long apical process. Body and 

 the vein-streaks of both wings chestnut red in 6, ferruginous in ?. Frous, 

 except a thin mesial line, two spots on the pronotum, in 6 the mesonotum 

 except four lines, nearly the whole pectus, part of the metanotum, the bases of 

 the abdominal segmeuts and the underside of the abdomen yellowish cream- 

 colour, except the stigma-spots and two rows of ventral spots as well as the last 

 segment. 



Upperside, forewing: a basal spot, a large median costal patch including 

 six red dots and continued to hindmargin in S, a row of discal spots and at the 

 distal margin a row of long arrowhead-shaped spots which merge together to 

 a zigzag line except the upper ones, all yellowish cream-colour ; the red veins 

 accompanied by black streaks, which before the outer margin are separated from 



the veins by the creamy markings. Hindwing yellowish cream-colour; a 



discocellular spot chestnut-red ; outer fourth, in ¥ outer third, occupied by 

 chestnut-red (<?) or ferruginous (?) vein-streaks and pairs of black streaks, 

 which are edged with yellowish cream-colonr, this latter colour occupying the 

 greater part of the submarginal area between R 2 and SM 2 ; fringe creamy in c?, 

 ferruginous in ? . 



Underside similar to upper; the creamy colour rather more extended ; both 

 wings with a rounded chestnut-red or ferruginous discocellular spot. 



Length of forewing : 6 33 mm. ; S 40 mm. 



Hub, Caldos, Minas Geraes, February, 2 S S (coll. J. Arp) ; Sapucay, 

 Paraguay, November (W. Foster), 1 ? in Mns. Tring. 



28. Citheronia hamifera spec. nov. 



(J? Similar to C. brissoti Boisd. (1868). The veins of the forewing very 

 slightly reddish. Hindwing always with a tawny marginal band on upperside, 

 the discal line of the underside being obsolescent or ill-defined and the costal 

 margin more or less tawny or fuscous. Harpe (of <?) very large, curved upwards 

 to the dorsal margin of the clasper, forming nearly a semicircle. 



Hub. Trinidad ; British Guiana ; South-east Pern. 



Perhaps the extra-Brazilian representative of ('. brissoti. 



